2012 Majority Report by The Office for Women's Affairs

Majority Report A Publication of the Office for Women’s Affairs (OWA) / Volume 26

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40 -YEAR CELEBRATION TIMELINE

WOMEN IN SCIENCE by Rosemary Pennington

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GAP: OWA DEANS' PAST SUCCESSES ENCOURAGE FUTURE TRIUMPHS

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WOMEN IN SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD

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A Brief History of STAFF AND FACULTY Women’s ADVISORY BOARD Intercollegiate Athletics at Indiana University

EMPOWERING WOMEN IN THE by Elizabeth Gregg WORKPLACE CONFERENCE by Brandi Masterson

by Elizabeth Gregg

zes an unprecedented the active forces as ational Guard.

1991

The NCAA elects Judith Sweet as its first woman president.

A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO Ertha Pascal-Trouillot is the first woman to be elected President of Haiti.forces as COMBATING SEXUAL VIOLENCE well as the Reserve and National Guard.

NEW FEMALE FACULTY

by Rosemary Pennington

INSPIRATION THROUGH MENTORING by Julianne Martin

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QUOTING THE INSPIRED

MAJORITY REPORT TEAM THE OWA TEAM YVETTE M. ALEX-ASSENSOH OWA Dean & Editor-in-Chief KATRINA REYNOLDS Assistant Dean and Director of Student & Staff Advocacy ERIC MOKUBE Director of Research and Savants NICOLE GRIFFIN STM and ICAW Coordinator and Executive Assistant to the Dean JULIANNE MARTIN Coordinator of Women in Science Program and Women in the Academy Program REBEKAH OLSEN Assistant Editor, Coordinator for Information & Technology and Commission on Personal Safety EMILY HAGYMASI Administrative Secretary and Event Planner BRANDI MASTERSON Secretary and Web Master SANDRA SALCEDO Special Projects Coordinator

CONTRIBUTORS BRANDI MASTERSON ERIC MOKUBE ELIZABETH GREGG JULIANNE MARTIN ROSEMARY PENNINGTON LESA PETERSEN REBEKAH OLSEN SANDRA SALCEDO

OFFICE FOR WOMEN’S AFFAIRS Memorial Hall East-123 1021 E. Third Street Bloomington, IN 47405 (812) 855-3849 indiana.edu/~owa

Inspiration This year marks the 40th anniversary of the empowering mission of the Office for Women’s Affairs (OWA). In line with the ongoing celebration of the mission, the theme for this year’s Majority Report is "inspiration." Indeed, inspiration reflects the many ways in which OWA as an entity has animated action or influence on campus and in the community. The Office for Women's Affairs has benefited greatly from the inspiration of women and several male allies, who were indefatigable warriors against gender discrimination in any shape or form. They have worked long and hard to raise awareness about and to eliminate the many inequities that our female faculty often face in getting their work published and in getting hired, tenured, and promoted — as well as getting paid equitable salaries for similar work, obtaining research leaves, and being selected for leadership opportunities so that they can compete on an even keel and playing field. Several meaningful women on campus campaigned long and hard to put in place structures that facilitate better working conditions and advancement for staff women, and they are vigilant to ensure that unconscious bias, discriminatory processes, and violence do not undermine the matriculation, persistence, and successes of female students and athletes. The inspirational battles, waged on various fronts, have certainly been important in achieving the progress that women have achieved today on our campus. The progress that we have witnessed is important. Almost 40% of all faculty on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University is female. Furthermore, women comprise the majority of the undergraduate student population, and the group is increasingly gaining majority status in many graduate programs. Our staff women are achieving greater levels of success in terms of leadership opportunities. Policies like the family leave policy and the mandatory online sexual assault prevention program are crucial in providing resources and protections that women need generally to thrive in academia. In spite of these gains, several formidable challenges remain because many of the issues of gender discrimination or equity are rooted in the structure of institutions. Therefore, in order to see real and meaningful change on our campus, there must be serious attention to the ways in which institutional practices, policies, and procedures nurture or maintain gender discrimination and inequity. Herein lies the current and future work to ensure equity for women: to inspire sustainable institutional change so that women and men can effectively contribute to IU’s academic mission unfettered by bias and unjustified discrimination. Just as I have been inspired to work collaboratively with my colleagues at OWA as well as partnering with others on campus and beyond, my prayer is that the work on behalf of women will continue, indeed, as I begin my new position at the University of Oregon. Regardless of my relocation, however, I will always be inspired by the work of OWA, the amazing skills of OWA staff, and OWA’s 40-year effort to facilitate equity-cum-inclusion for all and sundry at Indiana University. May OWA's path continue to shine and inspire progress on campus and beyond!

Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh, Dean (2008–2012)

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Title IX of the Education Amendments bans sex discrimination in schools. Enrollment of women in athletics programs and professional schools increases dramatically.

Kagan-Kans begins her term as OWA dean and lays the groundwork for the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s standards of equality.

In an effort to affirm the campus-wide commitment to equal opportunity in the employment and education of women, the Bloomington Faculty Council recommended that the chancellor of Indiana University establish the Office for Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Affairs (OWA).

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Sylvia E. Bowman becomes the first woman chancellor (chancellor of the Regional Campus System).

In 1972, women earned 50% less than their male counterparts, owned fewer than 6% of the country's businesses, and comprised less than 3% of the United States Congress. Despite the gaps in income and representation, 1972 was a year that signaled a change in the fortune of American women. After almost 50 years of being dismissed by every Congressional session that convened, the Equal Rights Amendment was sent to states for ratification. Title IX, which granted women equal rights and access in the field of education, was enacted in the summer of 1972. It was acknowledgement of inequality between men and women and bold steps taken to eradicate it. At Indiana University Bloomington, it was the Bloomington Faculty Council that suggested the creation of the Office for Women's Affairs to affirm the campus's commitment to gender equality. Despite being far from finished, much has been accomplished since 1972.

As a reflection upon the past 40 years, the Majority Report is featuring a timeline that spans the past four decades and marks watershed moments not only at Indiana University, but nationally and internationally as well.

1973

Sex-segregated â&#x20AC;&#x153;help wantedâ&#x20AC;? ads are banned following the Supreme Court ruling in Pittsburgh Press v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations.

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1975

Jessie Lavano-Kerr begins term as OWA dean. She connects OWA with other Big Ten universities and establishes the OWA Rape Task Force.

The Pregnancy and Discrimination Act is passed to prohibit discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.

Maria Estela (Isabela) Martinez de Peron becomes the first women to lead an American nation when she succeeds her husband as President of Argentina. She is also the first female president of Argentina.

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Finding Inspiration in the Gap: OWA Deans' Past Successes Encourage Future Triumphs by Lesa Petersen "A woman of superior training and refinement who shall have special care over the college girls." This was the job description set forth by President Swain in 1898 for a new position at Indiana Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the first dean of women. She was also to be an academic scholar and preferably medically trained. It was a time when young co-eds were enrolling in college in great numbers, in towns not yet properly civilized for unsupervised girls. Dark and mean streets, unsanitary off-campus housing, predatory male peers and superiors, and countless temptations to immorality were the chief concerns of parents and the daunting responsibility of the dean, who would be paid an annual salary of $1,300 to secure their housing and employment, look after 1976

their health and hygiene, and guide their etiquette and academics. It took quite some time to find someone to fit those requirements. In 1901, Mary Bidwell Breed became the first of six woman who held the position over the next 45 years. Obtaining decent housing for women on campus was a principal motivation for these deans, whose collective efforts resulted in the raising of Memorial Hall as the first campus women's dormitory during Dean Agnes Wells's tenure in 1925. Though some of their focal issues look pedestrian in today's light, these early deans of women provided careful guidance and mentoring, and empowered female students to fight for their interests and pursue careers.

But when Kate H. Mueller took on the role in 1938, she knew she would be the lastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with increasing female enrollment, the job was too big, and too outmoded. When Mueller stepped down in 1946, the parts of the position that were not obscured were rolled into the Dean of Students office.

The time is NOW

Seventy-four years after President Swain's position listing, the IU Faculty Council approved a position for a new brand of dean for women, who would "establish a climate in which women faculty, staff, and students are provided with full opportunities for the development of their abilities." It was six years after Betty Friedan founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in response to discrimination against women in the workplace despite attempts by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioners (EEOC) to enforce the amended Equal Rights Act of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Ann Meyers is the first female to win a full athletic scholarship at UCLA (basketball). She will lead the Bruins in steals, assists, blocked shots, and rebounds in each of her four seasons.

Indiana becomes the 35th State to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

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IU had just completed a survey of women faculty by the local Association of American University Professors (AAUP), which exposed glaring deficits for women in hiring, promotion, salary, and power positions. Then-Chancellor Byrum Carter distributed the AAUP report to IU administrative offices, and Professor Peggy Intons-Peterson championed the need for a position and an office to address the inequities. Eva Kagan-Kans became the first dean for women's affairs in 1972, around the time the Equal Rights Amendment had been approved by both houses of Congress. The Office for Women's Affairs (OWA) was to exist only for Kagan-Kans's term, but the number of complaints of discrimination was great and showed no signs of diminishing.

Deans through the Decades

They've brought inspiration and they've drawn inspiration, to and from the women they serve and to and from each other's work. Each dean has fielded new struggles and old injustices, and each has celebrated new accomplishments. Tireless, pioneering, compassionate, and steadfast—they are inspirational women, all.

1970s

Betty Friedan and the formation of NOW, Roe v. Wade, Gloria Steinem, the advent of Ms. Magazine, the Equal Rights Amendment, the Title IX discrimination ban amendments, Bella Abzug's congressional appointment, Shirley Chisholm's presidential run— the 1970s ushered in a steady rise in women's movements and significant legislative progress, but the workplace and university campuses were only waking up to the issues. After a 26-year absence of an office dedicated to women's issues at IU, Eva Kagan-Kans (OWA Dean, 1972–1975) was starting from zero, and hers was an inspired effort. Kagan-Kans was 1978

Women’s History Week is first celebrated in Sonoma County, California.

constantly championing the reason and great need for OWA and its programs. There were doubters aplenty, despite the hard evidence the AAUP report provided. She diligently set out to alter attitudes—a campaign that continued throughout her tenure. The campus needed equity reviews, a focus on recruiting women, an affirmative action plan, an informal grievance process, and benefits for part-time faculty. Heading up committees for all the aforementioned and overseeing admissions, salaries, and promotions, Kagan-Kans laid the groundwork for the university's standards of equality. Under the tenure of Jesse LovanoKerr (OWA Dean, 1975–1979), the OWA spread out beyond Bloomington to collaborate with national women's organizations, Big Ten universities, and other IU campuses. These efforts included the first CIC Conference on Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. Lovano-Kerr and her team created a series of growth workshops to explore impediments to academic and career potential, a forum on women and rape, and a task force on women in science, which was funded by a National Science Foundation grant. The OWA research center task force also conducted studies on campus during this time. "Several were very significant in effecting positive changes," Lovano-Kerr says. The surveys explored topics such as the quantity and quality of advising provided to women and minority students, retention, professional development, and quality of life.

1980s

Sandra Day O'Connor is the first woman U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and Dr. Sally Ride is the first to enter space, but the struggle for women is still inclined steeply uphill in the 1980s. The Equal 1979

Rights Amendment is defeated in 1982, and although more women are occupying boardrooms, promotions from the secretarial pool are close to nonexistent. Sexual harassment was an increasing concern when D'Ann Campbell (OWA Dean, 1979–1986) took office. Campbell distributed a report—"The X,Y,X Cases"—that revealed actual stories of sexual harassment on campus, with the names of the perpetrators and victims deleted. She was also involved in two sexual harassment projects that drew national attention: the first Title IX campus survey on sexual harassment, and the film You Are the Game. Working on the OWA Rape Task Force established by Lovano-Kerr, Campbell and her team joined forces with Middle Way house to create a 24-hour crisis line and train rape crisis volunteers. Phyllis Klotman (OWA Dean, 1986– 1993) had been a former campus affirmative action officer before she came to the OWA, but it was her first time working chiefly on women's issues. "I found it fascinating," she says. One of her greatest achievements during her tenure was the creation of the Commission on Personal Safety (CPS), which met some resistance from administrators who couldn't believe that "beautiful, bucolic Bloomington was not always a safe place for women." Understanding that women performed better at their jobs when they had access to broader support in their lives, Klotman educated her colleagues about the importance of childcare for working mothers and sponsored workshops on buying a house, car mechanics, and investing in the stock market. Other projects included workshops and panels on tenure, professional mentoring for undergraduate women, and the creation of the Little 500

Margaret Thatcher becomes Great Britian’s first female prime minister.

Ann Myers signs a contract to try out with the Indiana Pacers, and becomes the first woman to sign a contract with an NBA team.

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women's bicycle race. "I could not understand it," Klotman says, "when I came to IU, and women were racing tricycles!"

1990s

Ruth Bader Ginsburg becomes the second female member of the Supreme Court, and the 1994 Violence Against Women Act intensifies federal penalties for sex offenders and provides funds for rape and domestic violence victims. Women are taking on more positions of power, but very few are CEOs, and men outnumber women greatly in lucrative science and technology careers. "I was fortunate to come into an office with a great tradition," says Julia Lamber (OWA Dean, 1993–1998), "and had the luxury to pick up already established programs." The Commission on Personal Safety and the Women Partners Program were two of Lamber's pet projects. For the former, Lamber and her OWA team responded to overwhelming requests for more emergency phones and better lighting on campus. Picking up where Dean Jesse LovanoKerr left off, OWA established the Women in Science Program (WISP) in 1993 to attract and support women in science and mathematics careers and to improve the environment for women who choose those vocations. She established a Women Faculty mentoring Program in 1994 that partnered untenured women with senior academics from different departments. Lamber made OWS a very visible presence during her tenure—giving talks on women's issues, hosting regular lunches for women faculty, and awarding women students, faculty, and staff at IU for their talents. When Jean Robinson (OWA Dean, 1998–2003) entered the office, she knew much had been accomplished by the deans and OWA staff over the

previous 26 years, and she knew that there was much to be done. A social scientist at heart, she also knew that much of what needed to be done would be best revealed through research. And so, Robinson undertook a comprehensive two-year Study on the Status of Women that included IU faculty, students, and staff. "It's not like we didn't know the problems were there," Robinson says, "But we are an evidence-based institution. The study gave our mission a sense of legitimacy and a base to move forward." The results of the study have had longstanding impact—they still guide the projects and initiatives of OWA today. Among many other achievements, Robinson also acquired grants to boost the Women in Science Program (WISP) and to reduce violence against women on campus.

2000s to present

President Barack Obama signs the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act. More women are filling positions of power in America: CEOs, chairs, and high political positions. Hillary Rodham Clinton loses the 2008 presidential election, but makes the most viable run for president by a woman in U.S. history. Women gain more seats on the cabinet but lose representation in congress. Terry Dworkin (OWA Dean, 2003– 2007) served on the OWA advisory board under the two previous deans before accepting the role. Ensuring the ongoing progress of the Women in Science Program (WISP) and of safety issues on campus were top items on Dworkin's agenda, as well as the ongoing issue of tenure for women faculty. Dworkin made distinctive contributions in work-life initiatives for IU faculty, staff, and students. During her tenure, the OWA established a fully-equipped lactation room in the Indiana Memorial

Union, expanded classroom space for the Campus Child Care Center, and provided greater access to resources like the campus emergency babysitting list. Continuing this work during her year as acting dean, Catherine Pilachowski (OWA Acting Dean, 2007–2008) focused on making IU a more familyfriendly work environment and providing information to the campus on resources for women with families— such as family and medical leave policies, local childcare and eldercare options, healthcare plans for spouses and children of graduate students, and campus childcare facilities. "Empowering women is a collaborative effort and that is why I am so grateful to all of the previous deans and to our allies on campus and beyond," says Yvette Alex-Assensoh (OWA Dean, 2008–present). "The problems are multifaceted, with ceilings above, and shackles below, and they are often more complex than you can imagine. So we must attack them from many avenues." Like the OWA deans before her, AlexAssensoh's proudest achievements have come about through collaborations with campus and city offices and organizations. Through a collaboration with the Dean of Students Office and the Office of the Provost, OWA established a sexual assault education program that is mandatory for entering students, who are not able to register for classes until they take it. "Sexual assault is as problematic on this campus as it is everywhere,” Alex-Assensoh says. "We have a zero tolerance philosophy, and we now have in place a mandatory program that supports the philosophy. The more students are educated, the more likely they are able to report and prevent sexual assault crimes." She is also proud of the OWA Savant peer educators—a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students trained by faculty and community 1981

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D’Ann Campbell begins her term as OWA Dean. Campbell distributes “The X,Y,X Cases” that reveals actual stories of sexual harassment on campus, with the names of perpetrators and victims deleted. Campbell works with Middle Way house to create a 24-hour crises line and train rape crisis volunteers.

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Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court.

experts to raise awareness about sexual assault, gender equity, bystander intervention, ethical living and social justice—who recently won an award from the Commission on Multicultural Understanding (COMU) and two awards from the Commission on Personal Safety. Alex-Assensoh is committed to making sure that the work of previous deans “is nurtured and continued.” For example, she and her team built on the work of Deans Lamber and Robinson by expanding campus wide mentoring

Women in Science Advisory Board, OWA received approval to establish a Women in Science Thematic community, which is set to go online in Fall 2012. “This learning community will put us at par with other Big Ten universities regarding recruitment and professional development opportunities for undergraduate women in science, math and technology," she says. OWA has worked with Associate Vice President Dan Rives and University Human Resource Services to celebrate staff women and to provide professional development opportunities aimed

The problems are multifaceted, with roots above, and roots below, and they are wider than you can see. So we must attack them from many avenues." —Yvette Alex-Assensoh programs during her tenure, making them more "holistic" by incorporating regular check-ins, training sessions, contracts, workshops, as well as a peer mentoring program. "Julia and Jean laid a terrific foundation and my team and I are working to ensure that mentoring becomes incorporated into the campus culture," Alex-Assensoh says. "People really thrive as a result of these mentoring relationships." To ensure faculty members make mentoring a priority, she worked with the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs to include mentoring as a service link on the Faculty Academic Report. A new mentoring policy is also among the policies being considered for approval by the Bloomington Faculty Council. She and her team have built on the work of Dean Terry Dworkin by expanding the number of lactation rooms available to women on campus. She and her OWA team have also innovated in ways that address recruitment and retention for women and underrepresented minorities. For example, in collaboration with the

at encouraging career advancement such as the Women in the Workplace Conference. OWA and its staff has also nurtured the development of Indiana University Working Mom’s (IUWM). This is one of OWA’s newest initiatives, and Alex-Assehsoh is proud of the organization which “provides programming, networking, and support for working mothers who are members of IU faculty and staff because they are doing creative work on campus and in the community.” Alex-Assensoh also works with colleagues who have similar roles at IUPUI, Purdue, and other IU campuses to collaborate in addressing policy issues under the auspices of the Inter-Campus Coaltion for the Advancement of Women, a group she founded in 2008.

Standing on the shoulders of greatness Today, sitting in an office in Memorial Hall—the building that first housed IU women students—Alex-Assensoh still sees many of the inequities Kagan-Kan and the deans since faced, as well as the enormous progress their efforts 1983

1982

The Equal Rights Amendment fails.

yielded. The cumulative result of those efforts includes a more equitable campus, Alex-Assensoh says. "The remaining irony, however, is that while we have achieved our goals in terms of numbers in many ways, we are still in the minority regarding influence, pay, resources and authority. IU has had two female vice presidents over the last decade. Women usually serve as associates to vice presidents, deans, and president, and although they make important contributions in those roles, women also have the experience and skill to lead effectively as provosts, vice-presidents, and presidents. And we need to make sure that they have the opportunity to do so." Alex-Assensoh also sees new issues to be addressed. Dating violence, suicide, and aggression aided by technology have increased on all college campuses. "Students are more vulnerable without understanding ways for combatting the problems," she says. "Another change is the sheer diversity among women," she says. "When I was growing up, we had black women and white women in our small Louisiana town. Now we have women across a variety of experiences—race, political ideology, religion, language, nation, culture, sexual orientation, ability. Though we have the potential to thrive on the benefits of diversity, we don’t often see the opportunities of inclusion. Women need to embrace the fact that our differences can also serve as a basis for strength that moves us forward.” It is the gap between what we have achieved and what remains to be done that inspires Dean Alex-Assensoh. And so we are always "standing on the shoulders of greatness," she says. "So many women—and men—have given their hours and energy—their sweat and blood and tears. Their sacrifice created the opportunities that we enjoy today and provide the momentum for the tremendous challenges before us.” ***

Dr. Sally Ride becomes the first American woman to be sent into space.

Barbara J. Toman (B.A. with Distinction, Journalism and English, 1983) is the first female from IU to receive a Rhodes Scholarship.

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by Eric Mokube

As both the Office for Women’s Affairs (OWA) and Title IX celebrate their 40th anniversary, many have noted the enormous positive effect both landmark entities have had on the IU Bloomington campus. However, some do not embrace the idea that women’s positions in higher education have improved significantly enough, noting the same underlying structures and ideologies that work to the disadvantage of women in higher education are still at play 40 years after the passage of the Title IX legislation. Consequently, there is a need to monitor and constantly re-evaluate the status of women on campus and beyond. This essay focuses on the trends and evolution of progress for women at IU Bloomington since 1972, with the landmark creation of OWA. It provides data on the status of women faculty, staff, and students, as well as a measure of the relative standing of women at IU Bloomington, identifying areas where women still face inequity and suggesting benchmarks for defining progress. Part I presents a brief overview of OWA, aligning its mission and vision to fit the changing campus climate. Part II discusses the evolution of progress at IU Bloomington through the prism of critical benchmark indicators identified by OWA. Part III provides recommendations that will move women toward equity at IU Bloomington. 1984

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Indiana University’s progressive development over the past 40 years

There is widespread recognition that a variety of factors in higher education are modifying the landscape of institutions. Examples include the increased number of women enrolled in higher education and the record number of women graduates over the last 40 years. However, these significant changes have not translated into widespread progress for women in academe, as will be demonstrated in part II of this essay. OWA from 1972–2012: Forty years have passed since the establishment of OWA. The office serves as a catalyst for the formulation of programs and policies on campus to address the concerns of female faculty, staff and students. Of significant importance to OWA are burning questions about the status of women on campus: Are women allowed equal access to academic distinction, quality education, a safe environment, and economic well-being? Toward that end, and over the decades, the office has published a series of reports in an attempt to shed light on issues such as: devaluation of women in the classroom; harassment; sexual assault; equal access to resources; encouraging female students into the sciences, technology, and mathematics (STM); and child care. OWA's mission has evolved over the years and today, it provides a mentor-

The evolution of progress through the prism of critical benchmark indicators: The status of IU Bloomington faculty, as compared to national averages of the past 40 years, provides interesting analysis. In 1972, women accounted for about 9% of full professor positions at four-year colleges and universities, increasing to 24% in 2010. In the last 40 years, IUB has made progress in attracting and retaining more women

Geraldine Ferraro becomes the first woman nominated for vice president by a major party.

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ing program for female faculty nearing tenure or promotion, to equip them with necessary information for their dossiers as well as a Women in Science Program to provide support for women faculty and student in science, math, and technology. Annually, OWA recognizes female faculty who attain tenure. For staff members, OWA organizes a staff celebration day and provides professional development opportunities during the year and at the Women in the Workplace conference. In addition, OWA has a diverse group of students, the Savant Peer Educators, who instruct their peers on building healthy relationships and ethical living. OWA was also instrumental in advancing its advocacy on campus, through a mandatory online education program for all incoming students about sexual assault and in advocating for the extension of the Family Leave Policy.

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Libby Riddles is the first woman to win Alaska's Iditerod sled dog race.

Female tenure/tenure-track faculty at IU Bloomington from 1969-2010 (selected years)

The representation of women among the senior faculty is affected by the rates at which female assistant professors are tenured, promoted, and retained. This figure shows that the university has come a long way in the last 40 years. However, female faculty still trail their male counterpart at all levels. Female full professors, who are the major players in academe politics are increasing at a slower rate.

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Full Professor Associate Professor

80% 60% 40%

Assistant Professor

20% 0% 1969

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1989

1991

1996

2001

2006

2009

2010

Source: IU Library Archives and IU Fact Book.

IUB full-time female academic faculty by ethnicity from 2000-2011 The percent of minority women on the faculty at any time is the result of past practices surrounding hiring, promotion, and retention. With the exception of the first three years, in the past decade, full-time female faculty growth among African Americans, Hispanics, and American Indians has been flat and below 2 percent. Within that same period, female Asian Americans representation steadily increased.

Black 5%

Hispanic

Asian

American Indian

2% 1%

Multi Ethnic

0% 2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

Source: VPFAA data provided in spring 2012. Black is both native and foreign born; Hispanic is both native and foreign born; Asian is both native and foreign born. Multi Ethnic began in 2010 for faculty reporting more than one ethnic group.

faculty. In 1969, 5.2% of full professors were women; by 2010, the percentage had increased to 24% â&#x20AC;&#x201D;equivalent to the national figure. For the same period, women at the associate professor level went from 9.1% to 37%, and at the assistant professor level, women went from 14.5% to 46%. The data on minority women at IU Bloomington presented in the Bloom-

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ington Faculty Council report provide some sobering statistics: African American women represented 0.8 percent of full professors in 1994 and 2009, 1 percent and 2 percent of associate professors in 1994 and 2009 respectively, and 2.5 percent and 3.7 percent of assistant professors in 1994 and 2009 respectively; Hispanic women represented 1.3 percent and 0.6 percent of full professors in 1994 and

2009 respectively, 0.2 percent and 1.2 percent of associate professors in 1994 and 2009 respectively, and 0.7 percent and 2.6 percent of assistant professors in 1994 and 2009 respectively; Asian women represented 2 percent and 0.8 percent of full professors in 1994 and 2009 respectively, 1.8 percent and 3 percent of associate professors in 1994 and 2009 respectively, and 3.6 percent and 10 percent of assistant professors

Phyllis Klotman begins term as OWA Dean. She and her staff create the Commission on Personal Safety (CPS) and initiates workshops and panels on tenure, as well as professional mentoring for undergraduate women. She upgrades Little 500 Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bicycle race from tricycles to bicycles.

Corazon Aquino is elected the president of the Philippines.

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in 1994 and 2009 respectively. The issue of diversity of women faculty at IU Bloomington reflects a harsh reality, which is compounded by the under-representation of women on campus. Looking at the hiring pattern at IU Bloomington, one would expect more female faculty members. However, one major problem is the high rate of attrition among women faculty. From the late 1960s to the late 1970s, the average percentage of female faculty termination or resignation was 13%, almost matching the percent of women faculty hired annually (15%). Thus, while the number of women on the tenure track seems to be increasing slowly, terminations and resignations have been off-setting the positive hiring trends. Unfortunately, a significant number of women continue to be hired at lower ranks with higher attrition rates. A report by the Office of Affirmative Action revealed the following about women who resigned: 11% were full professors, 50% were associate professors, and 38% were assistant professors in 2003; 22% were full professors, 50% were associate professors, and 35% were assistant professors in 2009. The data suggest that more women resign at the associate professor level, which is consistent with the literature and findings that women usually have a hard time moving from associate to full professor. It is also indicative of the reason why women are disproportionately represented at the full professor level. An analysis of time-to-promotion showed women assistant professors have slightly longer time-to-tenure than men, and the time for associate professor’s promotion to full professor is longer for women than men. Although the gender makeup of the faculty changed dramatically over the last 40 years, the leadership at IU

1987

The first Little 500 Women’s Race is launched.

Bloomington continues to be largely male, with only two women serving as vice-presidents. Women are still a minority presence on the boards of trustees, which are typically responsible for hiring presidents. The findings from two recent surveys released by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges show that men outnumber women more than two-to-one on boards of both private and public colleges. The percentage of female trustees at private colleges (30%) has doubled since 1977. At public institutions, the share of women now serving on governing boards (28%) is lower than it was in 1997 (30%). At IU Bloomington, 3 women (27%) served on the board of trustees in the 2000s. In 2010, only 2 women served on the board of trustees (15%). Women are also disproportionately represented at IU Bloomington in areas of academic excellence. For example, in 2000, of the 80 named professors/ endowed chairs, only 12 were women, representing only 15 percent. In 2010 of the 170 named professors/endowed chairs, only 40 were women, representing 24 percent. Representation of minority female faculty is dismal. In 2000, there were no minority women in this category, and in 2010, only 2 African American women were honored, representing 1 percent. Another area of inequity for women is seen in the Patten Williams foundation winners. The Patten Lectures is the preeminent lecture series on the Bloomington campus. World-renowned scholars have lectured at Indiana University under the auspices of the Patten Foundation. However, women have been disproportionally represented. In the 1970s, only 17% of all faculty invited were women. That number, however, rose to 27% in the 2000s ,but still represents less than the percent of

overall female faculty at IU Bloomington, which stands at 33%. One reason talented women administrators are opting out of leadership positions seems related to how jobs in higher education are calibrated to mid-nineteenth-century gender expectations. Mary Churchill’s recent article in the AACU describes a culture of academic administration that is out of balance with family life. This attitude permeates the academic ranks. It is no surprise, then, as Churchill points out, that only 63% of women presidents are currently married (compared with 89% of men). Similarly, only 68% have children (91% of the men). This practice conveys the message that accommodating mothers is not the business of higher education. Two separate reports, from Princeton University and MIT, issued in March 2011, address the gendered leadership gap in higher education administration. One sided with fixing women, the other with fixing institutions. The Princeton report suggests that brilliant, talented women are not in visible positions of top leadership because,“they are more comfortable with aiming low or are made to feel that they belong in secondary positions.” According to the article, the solution to this problem was more mentoring, leadership training, and stronger orientation programs for women. The MIT report deemed issues systemic. The report attributes the doubling of proportional representation in faculty to policy changes: shifts in hiring committees, increased access to childcare, and equalized distribution of equipment and pay. The report suggests that administrators continue to transform the structures of the institution, not women. This is the option higher education faces as it looks to the future: fix the women in academe

Congress declares March as National Women's History Month in perpetuity. A presidential proclamation is issued every year, which honors the achievements of American women.

Wilma Mankiller is named the first woman Chief of the Cherokee Nation. She is the first woman to lead a major Native American Tribe in modern history.

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Jackie Joyner-Kersee is the first woman athlete to be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

who are unenthusiastic to move up the ladder, or fix the institutional structures, policies, and norms that propagate the leadership gap. Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students, and of those receiving a bachelor’s degree. In the 1980s, women enrollment in higher education surpassed that of men, and IU Bloomington was no different. In 1996, women enrollment at IU Bloomington was 53.4 percent of all students. In 2011 however, that number decreased to 49.9 percent. On September 14, 2010, The Washington Post reported that, in 2009, for the first time, more U.S. women than men received doctoral degrees.

The IU FactBook provides some interesting data about the status of female students. In 2005–06, 51.8 percent of bachelor’s, 51.8 percent of master's, and 48.3 percent of doctoral degree recipients were women. In 2010–11, 51 percent of bachelor’s, 48.3 percent of master's, 46.5 of doctoral-research, and 51.8 percent of doctoral-practice degree recipients were women. While some of the numbers are lower, it still demonstrates that women at IU Bloomington are above, or at parity with men when it comes to degree completion. This essay began by acknowledging the existence of some underlying structures that work to the disadvantage of women in higher education. While gender differences in faculty salaries have

been subjected to numerous analyses over the years, there are serious questions that need to be answered: Why are women less likely to be employed in research universities? Why do positions in the disciplines, in which women faculty are concentrated, generally pay less? Why do women faculty, generally, spend more of their time on student advising and committee service than men? Why do women earn less on average at every rank than their male counterparts? If the goal is to achieve equity for women faculty, it is necessary to address each of these questions at the source and develop effective strategies and policies to remove barriers.***

Best practices in moving women forward in higher education: IU Bloomington has accomplished much over the past 40 years related to gender equity. However, there has to be continued recognition that much more needs to be done and that it will require the full participation and commitment of the entire campus community. IU Bloomington’s future success with gender equity will be measured by how well it incorporates best practices in keeping with national norms.

Faculty

•Increase representation of women through facilitating flexible hiring, dual-career hiring, institutionalized mentoring programs, and family-friendly policies. •Make departmental and university policies and practices clear and equitable, working toward greater representation of women in positions of leadership within departments and colleges in university-wide positions.

Staff

•Review occupational segregation and expand opportunities for women in areas where they are seriously underrepresented, including categories of administrative/executive and support workers. •Implement a reasonable professional development program on campus for staff. •Remedy the pay inequity for women staff at IU Bloomington.

Student

•Increase efforts to expand women’s participation in majors and schools where they are underrepresented. Identify the barriers to retention of first-generation women, and offer programs that will redress these barriers. •Provide expanded support for women at the graduate levels to enhance completion of degrees and encourage them to pursue faculty positions. •Enhance campus climate so that it supports women, especially in terms of family formation and professional development. 1988

Margaret Intons-Peterson receives OWA’s Distinguished Faculty Award.

1989 Mia Hamm is named to NCAA All-Tournament Team.

The OWA Peer Presenter Progam is developed.

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Women in Leadership at IU Bloomington, 2000 and 2010 Board of Trustees

1/9 (11%)

2/9 (22%)

+11%

Vice Presidents

0/4 (0%)

1/5 (20%)

+20%

Senior Admin

0/3 (0%)

7/16 (44%)

+44%

Chancellor

3/10 (30%)

Deans

Vice Presidents 2000 0% 2010 0% Deans

2000 0% 2010

Associate

2000 2010 0%

-30% +1% +10%

Senior Admin 16/87 (18%)

Senior Admin 25/100 (25%)

+7 %

Named

12/80

40/170

+8%

2000 0% Professors 2010 0%

Deans William Patten 2000 0% Foundation 2010 0% Chairperson 2000 0% 2010 0%

Full

2000 2010

Vice Presidents 4/16 (25%) 2000 0% 2010 0% 17/39 (44%)

Chairperson Senior Admin Special Professors

2000 0% 2010

Vice Presidents 4/17(24%) 2000 0% 2010 0% 13/38 (34%)

Asian 0/1 (0%)

Associate Assistant

2000 0% (15%) 2010 0%

2000 0% (24%) 2010

9/65 (14%)

15/79 (19%)

2/4

2/3

Deans 2000 0% (50%) 2010 0% Chairperson 2000 0.8% 2010

20% 34%

Deans 2000 0% (67%) 2010

Chairperson 2000 1% 2010

24% 37%

40%

+5%

46%

+17% +4% +3% +6%

Source: Data come from VPFAA in Spring 2012. Categories are defined as follows: Vice President includes Provost and Vice Presidents. Senior Administration includes Associate Vice Presidents, Vice Provosts and Associate Provosts, Chancellor includes Vice Chancellors and Associate Vice Chancellors. Deans include only Academic Deans. Associate Deans include only Academic Appointments.

Women in Leadership at IU Bloomington by Race/Ethnicity Vice Presidents

Senior Admin

Deans

Associate Deans 3%

24%

2000

6% 19%

Asian

23%

45%

33%

African American

20%

2010

16%

33%

Chairperson 1%

Hispanic

White

1990

The Persian Gulf War utilizes an unprecedented proportion of women from the active forces as well as the Reserve and National Guard.

Ertha Pascal-Trouillot is the first woman to be elected President of Haiti.

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Susan Gubar receives OWAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Distinguished Faculty Award.

Women playing field hockey on Dunn Meadow in 1939. It was not until 2000 that field hockey became a varsity sport for women. IU Archives (P0026771)

A Brief History of Women’s Intercollegiate Athletics at Indiana University by Elizabeth Gregg

The Early Years Athletics for women at Indiana University were originally a component of the Department of Physical Education for Women (DPEW) in the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (HPER). Not unlike the majority of college campuses across the country, competitive opportunities for women were limited until the early 1960s. The most common forms of athletic pursuits were Play Days and Sports Days. Due in part to the Civil

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Winona Lee Fletcher receives OWA’s Distinguished Faculty Award.

Rights Restoration Act of 1964 and the women’s liberation movement, which occurred nationally and on the Bloomington campus, increased demands for additional competitive athletic opportunities for women led to the creation of extramural sport teams.

Still not truly “varsity” in nature, the participants shared uniforms, practiced at undesirable times, provided their own transportation to events, and often purchased their own equipment. At

The Family and Medical Leave Act goes into effect.

Martha McCarthy receives OWA’s Distinguished Faculty Award.

Toni Morrison becomes the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.

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IU, the first two sports were women’s basketball and field hockey. Both athletic teams were coached by Dr. Kay Burrus, a DPEW faculty member. The department was chaired by Dr. Anita Aldrich. Aldrich was a pioneer in women’s athletics with a vision for greatness. Her guidance proved to be a tremendous asset to the women’s athletic program at IU. In addition to Burrus, other faculty members in the School of HPER donated their time and energies to ensure that women interested in competing were properly supervised and coached. Under the leadership of Leanne Grotke-Andreas, who joined the staff during the 1967–68 academic year, athletic teams expanded to include tennis, golf, softball, volleyball, track and field, and swimming. While program offerings increased, the lack of budgetary support hindered the opportunities for women’s participation. During the 1969–70 academic year, only $1,222 was allocated for the extramural sport program. Despite the lack of available funds for the program, Aldrich worked diligently to secure funds for IU to become a member of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW). Athletics after Title IX When Title IX of the Educational Amendments passed on June 23, 1972, athletic programs across the country experienced radical change. Title IX requires that all institutions receiving federal financial assistance provide educational and athletic programs for men and women equally. The law had a dramatic effect on program offerings and funding for all athletic programs, and IU was no exception.

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In response to the mandates of Title IX, the university made several notable changes to its organizational structure. One such change was the establishment of the Office for Women’s Affairs (OWA) in 1972. Originally, OWA was responsible identifying discriminatory policies and procedures, monitoring complaints from women on the Bloomington campus related to discrimination, investigating individuals accused of discriminating against women at IU, and preparing

The women’s athletic program experienced growing pains upon moving into Assembly Hall in 1974. Five coaches of women’s teams and the sports information director for women’s athletics, Elizabeth Ullman, shared an office that was previously a coat check room. The office was not equipped with heat or air conditioning, adequate lighting, or a door. Grotke-Andreas’s office was located in a coat check closet. The only full-

Five coaches of women’s teams shared an office that was previously a coat check room. The office was not equipped with heat or air conditioning, adequate lighting, or a door. documents and reports that helped illustrate how the university was to address gender inequities. OWA was a critical component to IU’s strategic vision of its level of equality. Athletics was one administrative unit on campus that OWA assisted in their efforts to achieve gender equity. The Department of Intercollegiate Athletics also altered their organizational structure in the early 1970s, assuming full financial and administrative responsibility for the women’s athletic program in 1974. While the change resulted in a dramatic increase in funding for women’s athletic teams, great disparities were evident. The women’s budget for the year was $122,000, while the men’s budget was $2,334,568. Grotke-Andreas reported that despite the tremendous inequality, the majority of administrators and coaches of the women’s program were grateful for the increase in funding.

time member of the women’s athletic department staff that had an adequate office space was Marge Albohm, the athletic trainer. Her work space was in the athletic training room, with her male peers. Grotke-Andreas was replaced by Isabella Hutchinson during the 1978–79 academic year. In the 1981–82 academic year, the women’s tennis team traveled to the AIAW national championship, and won the tournament. It was the first and only AIAW national championship earned by an IU athletic team. At the conclusion of the 1981–82 school year, the IU women’s athletic program became a member of both the NCAA and the Big Ten conference. The early 1980s were a period of regression for women’s intercollegiate athletics. The Athletics Committee had determined that in order for the department to thrive financially, cuts to sport offerings were necessary.

Julia Lamber begins her term as OWA dean. As dean, she established the Women in Science Program and Women Faculty Mentoring Program.

Helen Nader receives OWA’s Distinguished Faculty Award.

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Men’s and women’s gymnastics and field hockey were all eliminated from 1982–1985. Gymnastics was selected because the popularity of the sport had declined nationally, the university lacked a suitable facility, the availability of officials had declined, and the necessary equipment was expensive and difficult to maintain (Athletics Committee, 1985). There were signs of encouragement for women, however. Discussion regarding the need to amend the by-laws of the Athletic Hall of Fame to allow for the induction of women took place in 1983. While women were only to be named Hall of Fame members on an “Honorary,” it was an encouraging development nonetheless. The first class of women was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1987. In 1989, the “I” Women’s Athletic Association was established. All women who participated in any organized sport as early as 1928 were included in the inaugural awarding of letters. The granting of “I” awards was a symbolic milestone in the acceptance of women’s athletics at IU. During the inaugural year of the “I” Women’s Association, over 400 former student athletes were petitioned for membership. The Modern Era IU’s Gender Equity Study, which outlined the institutions efforts to increase the level of equity in the athletic department, was updated in 1996. Findings indicated that the university needed to continue to increase the salaries of coaches of women’s teams to bring them closer in line with those paid to coaches of men’s teams. Most notably, it was advised that the university move forward in adding additional women’s varsity teams to increase the ratio of

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female athletes at IU. While women’s soccer had been elevated to varsity status in 1993, the university still lacked an appropriate gender balance in athletics.

recruiting, and training table expenses for women’s sports teams have all increased.

The process of creating new varsity sports for women was spearheaded by the senior women’s administrator, Mary Ann Rohleder. Rohleder was assisted by the women’s sports sub-committee of the Athletics Committee and Stacey Hall-Yanessa, the director of club sports in the Division of Recreational Sports. Hall-Yanessa provided the subcommittee and Rohleder with a list of club sports that might be interested in being elevated to varsity status. Sports considered for elevation were field hockey, rowing, lacrosse, and water polo. Rohleder recommended to the Athletics Committee that water polo be elevated to varsity status during the 1997-98 year. Water polo was selected due to the availability of a state-of-the-art facility and the low cost of operation. Women’s rowing became a varsity sport in 1998, followed by field hockey in the 2000–2001 academic year. In the decade since the last varsity sport for women was added at IU, the university has made great strides toward achieving gender equity. Under the leadership of athletic director Fred Glass, the Athletics Committee chairperson, and former OWA Dean Julia Lamber (among others), funding for women’s sports has increased significantly. Lamber, a professor in the Mauer School of Law, is a renowned Title IX expert. Her knowledge of equality issues, combined with Glass’s progressive vision for the athletic program, has led to improvements in equity in athletics at IU. Travel budgets, marketing and media staff dedicated to women’s teams, per diem allowances,

Karen Hanson receives OWA’s Distinguished Faculty Award.

Women’s rowing is currently a fully funded program with the NCAA maximum 20 scholarships. Athletic facilities for women have been dramatically enhanced. The Dale England Rowing Center on Lake Lemon was completed in 2005, followed by a state-of-the-art Field Hockey facility dedicated in 2007. New facilities shared with men’s teams include the Cecil W. Weathers Golf Team Center competed in 2009 and the Cook Hall basketball practice facility in 2010; both of which offer locker rooms and team offices that are equal in size and scope. The 40 anniversary of Title IX and the establishment of women’s intercollegiate athletics is a benchmark for measuring the progress of gender equity efforts. While tremendous strides have been made toward the goal of achieving equality in athletics, it is important to note the areas where improvements can still be made. Disparities are still evident in the salaries of men’s and women’s coaches and the overall funding of athletic programs. For example, the average salary of a head coach of a men’s team at IU is approximately $405,000, while the average head coach of a women’s team earns $92,736 annually. Further, the university allocated nearly $8 million per men’s team during the 2010–2011 academic year, while women’s teams received approximately $2.5 million. While there is substantial work ahead to realize true equity, with leadership dedicated to continued improvements in gender equity, IU is poised to continue to be a national leader in intercollegiate athletics. ***

Joan Catapano receives OWA’s Outstanding Staff Award.

1996

Judith Anderson receives OWA’s Distinguished Faculty Award.

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The Savants (from left to right) Emilce Sanchez, Vanessa Gee, Benny Taitel, Jessica Hill, Eric Gonzaba, Dr. Eric Mokube, Eric Chung, Michael Smith, Mariah McGhee, Hilary Meister, Samantha Karlin, Sung Won Chung, Elizabeth Uduehi (not featured), Bonnie Harp (not featured), Erin Brown (not featured)

"If the university community adopts a holistic approach to preventing sexual assault, one office won’t have to carry the burden of that work alone. Instead, everyone in the campus community will become committed to educating people about the issue." 1997

Mary Jo Weaver receives OWA’s Distinguished Faculty Award; Janet Harnett receives OWA’s Outstanding Staff Award.

Fedwa Malti-Douglas receives OWA’s Distinguished Faculty Award; Emily B. Stuart receives OWA’s Outstanding Staff Award.

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Jean Robinson begins her term as dean. As dean, she establishes the Women in the Workplace Conference, completes the Status of Women at IU Report, and acquires funding from NSF and other sources to enhance the Women in Science Program and to reduce violence against women on campus.

A Holistic Approach To Combating

Sexual Violence

by Rosemary Pennington

The counseling floor at the Indiana University Health Center is quiet. A young man sets up a follow-up appointment at the front desk while a handful of people read magazines in the waiting room and staff have conversations in corridors. Just down the hall, in an office overlooking a parking lot, sits sexual assault crisis center counselor Debbie Melloan. “We’re busier than ever,” she says when asked how many students she estimates she’s seen this academic year. But that busyness may not necessarily mean there are more assaults happening on campus. “People just may have a better awareness of what constitutes a sexual assault.” That hasn’t always been the case. Every two minutes someone is sexually assaulted in the United States and,

according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, 80 percent of those victims are under the age of 30. On college campuses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that up to a quarter of women will experience attempted or complete rape while enrolled. At Indiana University Bloomington, the number of reported sexual assaults on campus has gone through some ups and downs the last few years. In 2010 there were 34 reported forcible and non forcible sex offenses. That’s down from the year before. Raising awareness of what constitutes sexual assault is something the Office for Women’s Affairs has been trying to do over the course of its 40-year history. Because the office is activist in nature, with each new dean the OWA’s approach to how to combat sexual assault changes. Current Dean Yvette

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Alex-Assensoh is attempting to create what she calls a “holistic approach” to the problem. “We have to get the entire community to understand that this is a problem,” she says. “It’s a problem for women and it’s a problem for men. No one is unaffected by sexual assault. This is not just a women’s issue, we all need to be working to prevent this.” Alex-Assensoh thinks the only way to create a holistic approach toward the reduction of sexual violence is to get students thinking about the issue from day one. There can be no ambiguity about what constitutes an assault. “We approach this from a rights angle,” Alex-Assensoh says, “a moral and ethical angle. A woman has the right to choose not to be touched; to decide who she allows into that intimate space. We want students, the community, to understand that.” To help new students gain that understanding, OWA helped create a mandatory sexual assault training module that every freshman or transfer student must complete before he or she can register for classes. But to get people to really engage with the issue of sexual assault, an issue that has been stigmatized and whispered about, you have to do more than simply tell people what is and what is not appropriate behavior. You have to get them to care; to understand how sexual assault impacts the whole community, not just those who are victimized or those who commit the crime.

Moya Andrews is appointed dean of the faculties. Susan H. Williams receives OWA’s Distinguished Faculty Award. Sally Jones receives OWA’s Outstanding Staff Award.

Moya Andrews receives OWA’s Distinguished Faculty Award; Doris J. Burton receives OWA’s Outstanding Staff Award.

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Helping IU students make that connection is the work of the Savants, the OWA’s current crop of peer educators. For much of the office’s history, there have been peer- educator students trained to talk with IU’s student body about a variety of issues. “I specifically chose the name Savants for our peer educators because it means ‘learned person’ in French,” Alex-Assensoh says. The Savants learn how to communicate about an issue—in this case during workshops with staff from the Middle Way House—in a way that makes it understandable and relatable for their fellow students. “As students, we are often the ones in the audience learning from a professor who we often feel detached from,” says 21-year-old Evansville native, and OWA Savant, Elizabeth Uduehi. “However, as a Savant I serve, as our name also is titled, as a peer educator to students just like me. To be able to stand in front of hundreds of students sometimes can be a bit nerve-wracking, but after doing the workshops multiple times, you begin to get comfortable with the presentation, and that's when I am able to be flexible and creative in order to meet the needs of the students.” A number of the Savants, including Uduehi, are involved with the OWA’s Bystander Intervention program. The “brainchild” of researcher Eric Mokube, the program is designed to help students understand how they can intervene in situations that could lead to assault. “We don’t want students to be taking risks,” Mokube says. “We don’t want them to do things that will get them hurt. But we are trying to show them

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how they can help, how they can possibly stop a situation from turning into an assault. We teach them how to divert someone’s attention, what they can do when they see an assault, and how to recognize what an assault is.” Launched in 2010, Bystander Intervention is designed to empower both men and women and to specifically help men understand what they can do to help prevent sexual assault. The educators work hard to ensure neither men nor women are stereotyped during their presentations. “Our biggest challenge is getting males to be engaged and not feel attacked during our presentations,” says OWA Savant Jessica Hill. “Because it's really not about portraying women as victims and men as perpetrators, it's just about finding ways to build the healthiest and safest communities we can.” Workshop participants learn a variety of ways to de-escalate a potentially life-altering situation. These include diverting the attention of a man who may be becoming sexually aggressive as well as knowing how to help a woman get out of such a situation. They’re also given tips on how to know when it’s time to call the police. Bystander Intervention workshops can be presented in dorms, sorority or fraternity houses, even in college classrooms. One business professor, who had the Bystander Intervention workshop presented in his class, said the Savants armed his students with information to help them avoid danger. “In my classes, my freshmen students are at risk,” the professor wrote when providing feedback on the presentation. “The Savants gave my 600 freshman students a strong foundation. In my

Sharon Brehm is appointed vice president and chancellor at IU Bloomington. Lisa Pratt receives OWA’s Distinguished Faculty Award.

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The Bystander Intervention program has won several campus awards in the short time it’s been in existence. Mokube says he hopes more people will take advantage of this resource that OWA has created. When asked what the future holds for OWA’s work on sexual assault prevention, Dean Yvette Alex-Assensoh says she hopes “we put ourselves out of a job. I know that’s not an answer to your question, but I hope in three or four years this doesn’t take up as much of our time as it does now.” And that's not because she thinks sexual assault will go away; AlexAssensoh acknowledges that as long as there are human beings, there is likely to be violence. Her point about putting the OWA out of a job goes back to that idea of being holistic. If the university community adopts a holistic approach to preventing sexual assault, one office won’t have to carry the burden of that work alone. Instead, everyone in the campus community will become committed to educating people about the issue. “The best thing we can do is start something here, get the ball rolling, and then sit back and watch as others take up the issue,” Alex-Assensoh says. “These women [sexual assault victims] are walking around with these big wounds; we need to all work together to help them heal and to make sure there are fewer victims.”***

Chris Ogan receives OWA’s Distinguished Faculty Award. Anne Reese receives OWA’s Outstanding Staff Award.

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Hutton class, the Savants roused my Honors students to look beyond their studies and see the dangers of sexual assault, and to develop the ability to navigate through those dangers.”

Karen Hanson is appointed the first female dean of the Honors College. Elizabeth Astrid is appointed as the first female dean of SPEA.

Inspiration Through Mentoring by Julianne Martin When Erna Alant, professor and Otting Endowed Chair in Special Education, was presented with the opportunity to serve as a mentor to a junior faculty member, it seemed like a natural fit. “I was involved with a mentoring program before and enjoyed the process very much. I thus knew that I would very likely enjoy getting involved in mentoring again,” stated Alant. “Also, I was new to IU and thought it would be a good way to get to know a bit more about IU and develop some networks into the university.” Alant has served as a mentor in the Office for Women’s Affairs’ (OWA) Partnering for Faculty Advancement Mentoring Program for the past three years. OWA’s mentoring program was established in order to address the unique needs of female faculty members and combat the gender disparities that exist among faculty. The goals of the Partnering for Faculty Advancement Mentoring Program as include facilitating a better campus climate for female faculty, increasing the participation and retention of women in all disciplines, increasing job satisfaction, and providing guidance and support for faculty regarding all aspects of their professional development. OWA’s mentoring program includes faculty from a wide range of disciplines, from Optometry to Education to History. Mentees are paired with a faculty mentor outside of their home department. This way, the program

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serves as both the primary mentoring vehicle for faculty members, and a supplement to the mentoring that they may be receiving in their home departments. To Stasa Milojevic, assistant professor of library and information science and Alant’s mentee, this extra-departmental venue for mentoring has proved beneficial to her career. “The transition from a Ph.D. graduate to a new faculty member represents a major challenge. Therefore, it is extremely important to have mentors that would help nurture one into a successful faculty member,” stated Milojevic. “My school offers a very valuable mentorship

program. However, I was very happy to receive an invitation to participate in OWA’s Mentoring Program, because it provided an opportunity to learn from a senior faculty member outside my own discipline." The Partnering for Faculty Advancement Mentoring Program is one of the ways that OWA strives to develop an institutional structure on campus where mentoring is natural, spontaneous, ongoing, and ingrained within the culture of the institution. Throughout the year, training sessions and resources are provided to equip mentoring partners with the skills and

Terri Dworkin begins term as OWA dean. Julia Lamber receives OWA’s Distinguished Faculty Award. Cynthia Stone and Laura Plummer receive OWA’s Outstanding Staff Award.

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knowledge necessary to create fruitful mentoring relationships, both within their current mentoring relationships and throughout their future careers. Milojevic’s experiences as a mentee and the knowledge she has gained about mentoring have inspired her to become a mentor to another faculty member in the future. “I think [mentoring] is a great way to nurture new generation of scholars and leaders,” reflected Milojevic. “At the same time, I believe it is a great way to give back to the university. And finally, it provides an opportunity for personal growth as well."

For many faculty members, mentoring has been integral to professional development and success. “I do believe that the culture of mentoring is a really important one within any work environment, but specifically also for academic contexts,” stated Alant. “Scholarly endeavors can be isolating as they tend to be individualistic in nature. Mentoring is about having a broader vision in growing and expanding beyond individual interests and priorities. I think mentoring programs are essential in supporting faculty to become and remain productive and happy citizens within the university context.” ***

The Moya Andrews Scholarship Program for undergraduate women in Science is established. Lauren Robel is appointed dean of the Law School. Phyllis Martin receives OWA’s Distinguished Faculty Award. Angela Dill receives OWA’s Outstanding Staff Award.

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Photo by Shanay Payne

WOMEN

SCIENCE by Rosemary Pennington

2005

The first lactation room opens in the IMU. Sarita Soni is appointed vice provost. Jeanne Sept is appointed vice provost.

Although there has been a push in the United States the last several decades to encourage more women to consider STEM—science, technology, engineering and mathematics—careers, women remain woefully underrepresented in those fields. Only about a quarter of all STEM jobs are held by women and, even though more than 40 percent of STEM Ph.D.s are awarded to women, less than 30 percent of tenure-track STEM faculty positions are held by them. And those disparities don’t exist only among professionals and academics. A recent Harris Interactive poll showed that teenage girls who were interested in STEM careers were four times more likely than boys to feel their teachers weren’t giving them the education they need to get ahead.

Even in the face of such disparity, women have found success in STEM. Here at Indiana University, female researchers have won awards for work on natural antibiotics, have taken part in discussions about space exploration and what the surface of Mars might be like, have won Rhodes scholarships and fellowships for work in optometry and network infrastructure development. When it comes to IU’s student body, women make up half of the population, but only 41 percent of the population of students enrolled in STM majors (at IU we all it STM because there is no engineering program). This is pretty good compared to where things have been in the past.

Kathleen Myers receives OWA’s Distinguished Faculty Award. Melanie Castillo-Cullather receives OWA’s Outstanding Staff Award.

IU begins an annual celebration in conjunction with National Girls and Women In Sports Day. The event is sponsored collaboratively by the Office for Women’s Affairs, the School of HPER, the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, Campus Recreational Sports, the Girl Scouts, and Indiana Youth Institute. The event also affords the opportunity to present the Office for Women’s Affairs' award for Excellence in Support of Women in Sports and the School of HPER’s Anita Aldrich Distinguished Alumni Award.

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“I have seen changes, but major changes the last eight to ten years,” said Dr. Sarita Soni, vice provost of research at Indiana University Bloomington. The Office for Women’s Affairs at IU has been committed, since its inception, to helping women succeed in STM disciplines. One way the office has worked to support female faculty is by offering them mentors to help them find their footing as they pursue tenure. Soni, a member of the OWA’s Women in Science Program Advisory Board, has served as a mentor in the past. “Most young faculty, coming in, will focus on teaching because they understand this concept of being in front of a class and being judged every day, every minute of that hour that you’re in there,” Soni said. “So they spend an awful lot of time preparing lectures and their materials, and often I see research beginning to take second place until the first summer. And I think that’s where the mentoring is very, very critical in working with the faculty members, especially on figuring out the amount of time you want to spend on teaching and the amount of time you want to assign to your research.” Figuring out that balance is crucial for academics working at a research one (R1) institution like Indiana University. That R1 designation means you’re going to be expected to be a fruitful researcher—presenting at conferences, publishing journal articles, and getting research grants—from the moment you step on campus. Finding a mentor is something associate professor of psychology and Women in Science (WISP) board member Sharlene Newman wishes she’d been able to do earlier in her career. It was only after she received tenure, though, that she began really exploring the option.

“This is my first year on the WISP board. I actually wanted to be involved in the mentoring program, but they don’t have many women in science to pair me with, and so they suggested I be involved on the board,” Newman said. “It's kind of sad that there aren’t enough senior women faculty in the sciences to be paired up with.” OWA’s Women in Science Program (WISP) has been working for years to increase the number of women in STM as well as offer more support and mentoring opportunities. In addition to pairing senior faculty mentors with junior faculty, WISP offers a research conference, brings prominent women STEM researchers to campus, and provides other types of research support. For Newman, the work WISP does is not only important because of the support it provides, but also because it helps promote an environment in which diversity is appreciated and valued. “Diversity in itself is important,” she said. “I think it’s important because people from different experiences and different backgrounds have something different to contribute, and so I think you get a richer answer to questions when you have a diverse group. But I think it’s also important for women to be equally represented in all disciplines.” Sima Setayeshgar is an associate professor of biophysics at IU and became involved in WISP fairly early in her career at the university. Although she counts herself lucky in that she was never made to feel like an outcast during her undergraduate and graduate STEM studies, she knows that’s not the case for every woman. “To quote a woman physicist in Colorado, ‘The reason there are so few women in physics is because there are so few women in physics’,”

Rosemary Lloyd receives OWA’s Distinguished Faculty Award. Norma Holland receives OWA’s Outstanding Staff.

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OWA Emergency Babysitting Program is rolled out to faculty.

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"The reason there are so few women in physics is because there are so few women in physics." Setayeshgar said. “I remember a similar conversation with a very supportive male postdoc mentor that I had, who was recalling his conversations with his fellow women graduate students a few decades ago when he was in graduate school, where the general sentiment was that, with so few women in a given class or seminar room, you feel like a Martian; you do feel like you’re a minority.” Even though it never held her back in her studies, Setayeshgar says it does make you pause when you realize you’re one of only a handful of women studying a particular subject. For physics Ph.D. student Rana Ashkar, a member of the WISP board, it’s been a bit of a lonely experience being one of the only women enrolled in her undergraduate and graduate physics classes. “Women in physics are minorities and we should do something to change this fact,” Ashkar said. “Being involved in WISP and trying to advance the status of women in science in general, and in physics in particular, is exactly what I want to do. It is the big mission other than my research.” To help undergraduate women in STM careers feel less alien in their fields of study, WISP—in partnership with OWA and Residential Programs and Services — is launching a STM floor in the Fall of 2012 on the Bloomington campus. The floor will offer mentoring and academic services to its residents but,

Catherine Pilachowski begins term as OWA dean. Karen Hanson is appointed as the first female provost of the Bloomington campus and executive vice president at Indiana University.

Meredith West receives OWA’s Distinguished Faculty Award. Lorenda Schraeder receives OWA’s Outstanding Staff Award.

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perhaps more importantly; it will help create a sense of community among the undergraduate women in STM who choose to live there. “We are hoping the students will stay for all of their undergraduate careers and the older students will become the RAs and leaders for the younger ones,” said IU Professor of Mathematics Marlies Gerber. WISP board member Gerber has been involved in the floor planning the last several years. As part of the planning process, a survey was sent out to current women STM students to gauge interest in such a living environment. “We got a very positive response. There were some who said ‘I’m an independent woman and I wouldn’t want to be part of this’ but I think that the majority felt that this would be a positive environment,” Gerber said. “And there is some spin-off for women who aren’t in the program, and they can still attend events, so it may even help women who are not actually living on the floor.” The floor will be located in Read Residence Center and is expected to house 50 residents in its first year. The hope is that, eventually, the STM community will encompass several floors or even an entire building sometime down the road. Another way WISP works to create a sense of community among women student researchers—both at the undergraduate and graduate level—is through the annual Women in Science Research Conference. Held each March, women who present at the conference create poster presentations of their work and are judged in several categories—in both hard and social sciences—and a cash award is given to the top research.

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“What I really liked about it is that I was able to talk to women in other areas, other fields,” Ashkar said. “Sometimes you are surprised that all this is going on in the university and you’re not aware of it. The conference as a whole was very informative. It’s a way to present research with less pressure.” Political science professor Karen Rasler has served as a faculty judge of social science entries. She says it’s an especially good opportunity for undergraduate women.“I think it’s great experience,” Rasler said. “They’re meeting a lot of different women with different projects and it's a fun experience that might entice them to go on to graduate school.” Rasler says it turned out to be an interesting experience for her as well, especially when it came to one particular graduate student’s project. “She was so professional in terms of her presentation that she clearly didn’t need the experience, if anything she had a bigger impact on me than I had on her,” Rasler said. “Her work was looking at how men look at porn influences how they think about date rape or rape in general. She went through the psychological mechanisms and then she showed me the measurements and how they could look at people’s faces as they’re looking at pornography—it was just a fascinating experience.”

Yvette Alex-Assensoh begins her term as OWA dean. As dean, she establishes Savant Peer Educators, Living Legend Award, and the Women of Vision Award. OWA Fest is launched featuring Trustee Sue Talbot and Provost Karen Hanson as its inaugural speakers. Dean Alex-Assensoh establishes the Inter-Campus Coalition for the Advancement of Women in partnership with Kathy Grove at IUPUI and Katie Pope at Purdue.

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Ashkar has presented at the conference in the past and, this year, lead workshops on how to create a successful poster presentation. For her, the conference was a worthwhile experience not only because it was an opportunity to talk about her work, but also because it gave her the chance to network with women student researchers from a wide array of disciplines.

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Creating those kinds of experiences, connecting researchers in this way, is one of the vital missions of WISP’s work. What it all boils down to, according to advisory board member Sima Setayeshgar, is that idea of visibility. “The numbers don’t necessarily have to be 50/50 for you to not feel like a minority, but there has to be a critical number,” Setayeshgar said. “So, numbers matter.” In a report released in 2010, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) found that women in STEM fields still had major obstacles to overcome in order to achieve success. Those obstacles included stereotyping, gender bias, and just the overall climate in many science and engineering departments. In its latest newsletter, the AAUW stated it is making women in STEM a major focus in 2012 and the organization is currently conducting a survey on STEM education. The AAUW’s newsletter came on the heels of the launch of a National Science Foundation (NSF) initiative aimed at getting more women and girls interested in STEM. “If little girls know they can do anything, if they’re taught that early,” Neuroscientist Sharlene Newman said, “then they can go on to do anything.” As the OWA remains committed to creating an environment that produces, in the words of Dean Yvette Alex-Assenoh, “the most successful and engaged female scientists in the world,” changing the conversation, the climate, and the perception of women in STM will likely be part of the office’s work for years to come. Initiatives like that of the NSF are successful, perhaps that work will get easier as girls become empowered to pursue STEM studies and as undergraduate and graduate students find firm footing in STEM careers both in, and outside of academia.***

2010

OWA’s Savant Peer Educators win three campus-wide awards for work on bystander intervention and sexual assault. OWA established the Indiana University Working Moms (IUWM) Group.

Elinor Ostrom wins Nobel Prize. OWA publishes a campus-wide report on child care. OWA, in partnership with IU Counseling and Psychological Services, compiles the Faculty Guide for Assisting Survivors of Sexual Assault. OWA disseminates the Resource Guide for Student Parents. Linda S. Smith receives OWA’s Distinguished Faculty Award. Felisha Legette-Jack receives OWA’s Outstanding Staff Award. Iris Rosa receives OWA’s Living Legend Award.

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Women in Science Program (WISP) Advisory Board RANA ASHKAR Graduate Student, Physics

ERIN CARLSON Assistant Professor, Chemistry

EILEEN FRIEL Professor, Astronomy

SABINE LAMMERS Assistant Professor, Physics

EDEN MEDINA Assistant Professor, Informatics and Computing

STASA MILOJEVIC Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science

SHARLENE NEWMAN Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

IRENE NEWTON Assistant Professor, Biology

MAREN PINK WISP Chair and Senior Scientist in Chemistry

BETH PLALE Professor, Computer Science

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MARLIES GERBER Professor, Mathematics

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AMINA SALAMOVA Postdoc, SPEA

SIMA SETAYESHGAR Associate Professor, Biophysics

SARITA SONI Vice Provost for Research

LAURA WASYLENKI Assistant Professor, Geological Sciences Biogeochemistry

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WISP MISSION STATEMENT

ANDREA LOCKHART Graduate Student, Economics

PALLAVI BARAL Graduate Student, Economics

DANIELA PUZZELLO Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

SARA SKRABALAK Assistant Professor, Chemistry

A program of the Office for Women’s Affairs (OWA), WISP seeks to create a supportive and proactive learning and working environment in which women in science can thrive and succeed. WISP’s Advisory Board, made up of dedicated science and technology faculty, develops and implements programs in consultation with the OWA dean that promote the success of women in science, mathematics, and technology at Indiana University. Write to wisp@indiana.edu.

THE OFFICE FOR WOMEN'S AFFAIRS (OWA) TEAM AT MEMORIAL HALL Left to right: Nicole Griffin, Emily Hagymasi, Brandi Masterson, Katrina Reynolds, Julianne Martin, Sandra Salcedo, Rebekah Olsen, Eric Mokube, Yvette Alex-Assensoh

2011

OWA, in partnership with the Dean of Students and the Office of the Provost, launch mandatory online sexual assault prevention course that all freshmen and transfer students must take. The Women in Science Conference is enhanced to include a career development panel and breaks previous participation records with more than 150 participants.

2012

OWA celebrates the 40th Anniversary of its mission with research conferences, book events, and a screening of Miss Representation. OWA launches a science, technology, and math thematic community in Read Residential Center for undergraduate women in science. OWA advocates for a campus-wide mentoring policy that is approved by the Bloomington Faculty Council as a resolution in March. Ellen D. Ketterson receives the Distinguished Faculty Award. Caroline DowdHiggins receives the Outstanding Staff Award. Jitka B. Horne receives Early Childhood Educator of the Year Award. Representative Peggy Welch receives the Woman of Vision Award.

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OWA 2011â&#x20AC;&#x201D;2012 Advisory Boards THE OWA ADVISORY BOARDS - STAFF MEMBERS The boards meet throughout the year to discuss initiatives and policies. The board, composed of staff and faculty members, advises the OWA dean regarding research reports, policies, climate issues in campus units, outreach activities with the broader community, and grant-writing possibilities for future initiatives.

SANDY BRITTON Director, Leo R. Dowling International Center

KIM BUNCH Office Manager; Director, Finance and Administration

PATRICIA CROUCH Academic Services Coordinator, Psychological and Brain Sciences

ANDI GITELSON Undergraduate Academic Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences

HELEN HARRELL Administrative Manager, African Studies Program

KRYSTIE HERNDON Undergraduate Academic Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences

JEANNE MADISON Co-Director, Mini University, Continuing Studies

GWEN MCCAY Assistant Director, Administration Support Services, Physical Plant

JOAN MIDDENDORF Associate Director, Campus Instructional Consulting

SUZANNE RYAN Director, Bloomington Human Resource Services

BABITA UPADHYAY Special Projects Coordinator, Multicultural Initiatives

JANICE WIGGINS Director, GROUPS Student Support Services Program

RUTH WITMER Editorial Adviser, Indiana Daily Student

HEATHER AKOU Associate Professor, Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design

MARIA BUCURDECKARD Professor of History and Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

ALYCE FLY STEPHANIE CARTER Associate Professor, Associate Professor Applied Health Science of Education and Director, Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center

IDALENE KESNER Associate Dean of Faculty and Research; Frank P. Popoff Professor of Strategic Mangement

JOAN PONG LINTON Associate Professor, English

PORTIA MAULTSBY Laura Boulten Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology; Director, Archives of African American Music and Culture

RADHIKA PARAMESWARAN Associate Professor, Journalism

VASTI TORRES Professor, Education

FACULTY MEMBERS

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LIANA ZHOU Librarian, Kinsey Institute

Empowering Women in the Workplace Conference by Brandi Masterson

For the last 13 years, the Office for Women’s Affairs has sponsored a conference designed to enhance the lives of staff women on campus and in the community. Originally known as Women in the Workplace Conference, this year’s conference was renamed “Empowering Women in the Workplace Conference” in an effort to convey the nature of the conference as well as the substance of its participants, who are in many respects empowering women. For the last several years, the conference has been held at various off-campus locations. This year, OWA held the conference on the Bloomington campus in an effort to reach a broader range of participants. It was convened on November 11, 2011 in the Frangipani Room of the Indiana Memorial Union to a sold-out audience of more than 150 women. This year’s conference was directed by Nicole Griffin with the support of the OWA team. Some of the highlights from the morning and afternoon sessions of the 2011 conference follow. The conference session convened with instructions from the organizing committee followed by words of welcome from Associate Vice President of University Human Resource Services Dan Rives and OWA Dean Yvette Alex-Assensoh. Caroline Dowd-Higgins, author of This is Not the Career I Ordered was this year’s keynote speaker. In a lively presentation that was a hit with attendees, Dowd-Higgins discussed the importance of initiative in career

planning and creating support systems to assist in career transitions. Immediately following, the conference attendees broke into more intimate sessions, which were held in the Tree Suites of the IMU. As this year’s theme was Empowering Women in the Workplace, the morning sessions were tailored towards developing professional and personal skills and empowering attendees with legal knowledge and financial tools. Women from nearly every unit on the Bloomington campus, Ivy Tech, and the Bloomington community were empowered by presentations on topics of career transitions, professional networking and resume preparation, repackaging your office persona, and using HR resources to take control of personal health care. An associate from Innovative Financial Solutions led a session on reverse budgeting and a panel of lawyers fielded questions and offered tips on legal rights, from custodial to estate planning. This year’s panel of experts was wide ranging in its knowledge and expertise and included campus as well as nationallyknown speakers: Mary-Ellen Kiley Bishop, Sarah Carter, Catherine Stafford, Ian Essling, Sue Dukeman, Cindy Clampitt, Kirsten Gronbjerg, Katrina Jones, Jennifer Fouty, Jennifer Stuart, Katie Anderson,Victoria Land-Rodda, Dan Rives, and Patty Hollingsworth. After a relaxing lunch, budget conscious fashion became the focus as My Sister’s Closet, a local consignment store that provides low income women with affordable

attire for job interviews and new careers, provided a sampling of the wares for the "Putting Your Best Dress Forward" fashion show. IUB students and the Girls of Meadowood served as models during this engaging fashion show. The day ended with a focus on the importance of taking care of your emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. The afternoon breakout sessions were all about the importance of fitness and how exercise can be functional, empowering, done anywhere, and even be a part of your faith. These sessions were facilitated by Carol Kennedy-Armbuster, Amy Headdy, Allison Chopra, and LaWanda Mitchell. Finally, Dr. Denise E. Williams brought the day to a close with a presentation on Power, Passion, and Purpose,and sent participants on their way with the knowledge that they are truly in control of their destinies. In addition to benefiting from fresh insights, this year’s conference had opportunities for participants to network as well as reflect upon the information given to them throughout the day. Preparations for the Empowering Women in the Workplace Conference begin at OWA in January of each year. OWA also offers attendees the opportunity to evaluate the conference, which helps our office to improve upon the previous year’s events. Meanwhile, mark your calendars now to attend the fall 2012 conference, which is sure to bring life-long benefits from a day of learning and networking.***

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New Female Faculty at IU Bloomington Meet our newest tenured and tenure-track faculty in Bloomington BETH CATE, SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS

Beth Cate received a B.A. in Economics from The George Washington University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, both with honors. Her research and teaching interests are focused on the impact of technology on the role, development, and enforcement of law; assessing and improving lawmaking processes; information privacy and legal principles concerning the access to and use of “personal” information; the role and efficacy of law in shaping the intellectual property “commons”; and the influence and role of religion in lawmaking. Between 1998 and 2011, Beth served as associate general counsel for Indiana University and practiced in a variety of areas, with emphases on intellectual property, research regulation, and the law and ethics concerning the use of information technologies, and has retained an adjunct title in the Counsel’s Office for the coming year to continue to lend expertise in these areas. She served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA), and has been a frequent speaker for NACUA, EDUCAUSE, and other organizations on intellectual property and information technology legal issues. Beth also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Indianapolis Zoo and spends her Sundays caring for the Zoo’s African elephants, including her adopted elephant daughter, Tombi.

LORI DEKYDTSPOTTER, UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Lori Dekydtspotter joins IU as a rare books and special collections cataloger. She began her career at IU as transfer cataloging and retrospective conversion assistant in the Herman B Wells Library in August of 1995. In November of 1995, she moved to the Lilly Library as catalog management specialist. She has been at the Lilly Library since then in various support staff capacities (most recently as rare books cataloger) until she accepted her current position as assistant librarian and rare books and special collections cataloger. She received a B.A. in English Literature in 1985 and an M.A. in Medieval Literature/Rhetoric and Composition in 1987 from Eastern Washington University. She received her M.L.S. from IU in 1999.

MARGARET FOSTER, CLASSICAL STUDIES, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Margaret Foster received her B.A. at Vassar College (1999), an M.A. at University of California, Berkeley (2003), and her Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley (2010). Her research focuses primarily on Greek culture and poetry of the archaic and classical periods, in particular the poetry of Pindar and Bacchylides. One of her main interests is exploring archaic and classical representations of the relationship between religion and travel. Her current book project, The Cultural Imaginary of Manteia, seeks to elucidate Greek cultural fantasies about seers and seercraft. Moving beyond viewing seers merely as specialists in divination, she is concerned with investigating the other qualities Greeks attributed to seers and the range of ventures, many involving travel, in which Greeks envisioned their seers participating. Other projects include a study of the intersections between Greek seers and another type of expert traveler, the theôros (religious envoy), and the influence of Pindar’s paians on Horace’s characterization of the rites of the Roman Salii.

EILEEN FRIEL, ASTRONOMY, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Eileen Friel previously served as director of Lowell Observatory, and was for many years the executive officer (deputy director) for the Division of Astronomical Sciences at the National Science Foundation. Prior to joining NSF, she was director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory for five years and directed Research Experience for Undergraduate programs there and at CTIO in Chile. She was a NATO/NSF postdoctoral fellow at the Observatoire de Paris, a Plaskett Fellow at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Canada, and the Beatrice Watson Parrent Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Hawaii. She received her B.S. in Physics at the College of William and Mary, completed the Part III Maths Tripos at Cambridge University, and received her Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of California at Santa Cruz. After post-doctoral fellowships in Hawaii, Canada, and France, she was named Director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory. After five years as director, Friel joined the staff of the Astronomy Division at the National Science Foundation. Her research focus is on stellar and Galactic astronomy. Much of her recent research has involved using star clusters as chemical and dynamical probes of the Galactic disk to address questions of the formation and evolution of the Milky Way galaxy and its stellar populations.

FILOMENA GARCIA, ECONOMICS, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Filomena Garcia obtained her Ph.D. from CORE (Université Catholique de Louvain) and her previous appointment was with the Technical University of Lisbon. She also belongs to the organizing committee of the Lisbon Meetings in Game Theory and Applications, an international conference held every year in Lisbon. Her research interests lie mainly in two areas: 1) game theory and 2) industrial organization. In game theory, her focus is on noncooperative games with strategic complementarities and on the dynamics of network formation. In industrial organization, her current work focuses on the dynamic firm competition and on firm interaction in network industries. She has published in the Journal of Economic Theory, the Economic Letters, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Manchester School and, the Review of Network Economics.

KRISTA GLAZEWSKI, INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Krista Glazewski holds a Ph.D. in Learning and Instructional Technology from Arizona State University. Prior to joining the faculty at IU, she served as an associate professor at Purdue University and New Mexico State University. She has co-authored a number of refereed publications in journals including Instructional Science, The Journal of Interactive Learning Research, and Educational Technology and Research Development. Her scholarly interests focus on methods and strategies for scaffolding active student engagement and learning within problem-based and inquiry-based learning contexts.

CASSANDRA GUARINO, EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY STUDIES, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Cassandra Guarino earned a Ph.D. in Economics of Education from Stanford University, as well as M.A. degrees in economics, and educational administration and policy analysis. Prior to that, she served as assistant professor in Education at Michigan State University. She has also worked as an economist for the Rand Corporation and been involved in research with the American Institutes for Research, the National Center for Research on Vocational Education, and several departments at Stanford University. She has been the recipient of numerous research grants, the most recent of which includes an award from the Institute for Education Sciences for a project titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Constructing Value-Added Indicators of Teacher and School Performance that We Can Trust.â&#x20AC;? She has also co-authored a number of journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports.

KELLY HERD, MARKETING, KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Kelly Herd teaches Consumer Behavior. Her research focuses on aesthetics and consumer self-design as they relate to a variety of topics including social comparison theory, gift giving, and identity. Her dissertation examined how making identity goals salient prior to design can influence product evaluations and the effectiveness of customization options. She is also interested in how the use of aesthetically pleasing products influence self-evaluations. Her research has been published in the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Marketing. Prior to completing her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado, she worked in marketing, specializing in public relations and consumer research.

LAURA MCCLOSKEY, APPLIED HEALTH SCIENCE, SCHOOL OF HEALTH, PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND RECREATION

Laura McCloskey holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin, a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan. Professor McCloskey has performed federally-funded research on a variety of outcomes associated with violence against girls and women. Her work describes mental health and physical health disparities according to gender, class, race, and ethnicity. She has collaborated with city public health departments and nonprofit agencies.

BETH MEYERSON, APPLIED HEALTH SCIENCE, SCHOOL OF HEALTH, PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND RECREATION

Beth Meyerson comes to IU after directing the Policy Resource Group, LLC, an Indianapolis firm specializing in health policy research and strategy with domestic and international emphases. Her work is informed by public health service as the AIDS/ STD director for the State of Missouri and through years of work in private and nonprofit sectors in St. Louis, Indianapolis, St. Petersburg, Ann Arbor, and Boston. She has worked in Kenya, Nigeria, Botswana, India, Russia and throughout the Caribbean. Her most recent research appears in Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Public Health Reports, The American Journal of Public Health, and The Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Her most recent book (2008) is Ready to Go: The History and Contributions of U.S. Public Health Advisors. Her research interests include the structural barriers to health or disease prevention, health policy capacities in communities and among health professionals, and social constructions of and by health policy target populations. Her current focus is the expansion of a phenomenological study in Indiana about the experience of HIV testing.

IRENE NEWTON, BIOLOGY, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Irene Newton is an environmental microbiologist who applies high-throughput bioinformatic and genomic tools to the study of bacterial ecology and evolution. She finished her Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2008, studying the functional genomics of chemosynthetic bacterial symbionts of clams and went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship at Tufts University in 2010 that focused on proteins secreted by an insect-associated bacterium, Wolbachia pipientis. She then spent a year as an assistant professor at Wellesley College in Massachusetts before joining the Indiana University faculty in fall 2011. A common thread in her research is the following question: What is the molecular basis of interactions between bacteria and eukaryotes and ultimately, how do these relationships impact bacterial diversity, population structure, and genomic evolution? Her current projects include functional genomics of Wolbachia pipientis and the study of the honey bee microbiome.

DANIELA PUZZELLO, ECONOMICS, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Daniela Puzzello’s research and teaching interests are in economic theory, monetary economics, and experimental economics. Her work focuses on the efficiency of allocations in environments with decentralized trade. Some of her papers provide mathematical foundations to random matching models and explore economic implications of their properties. More recently, her research integrates theory and experiments to study social norms of exchange and welfare improving trading institutions. Her research has been published in Econometrica, Economic Theory, European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, and Journal of Monetary Economics. She is an associate editor of Economic Theory. Before joining the faculty of Indiana University, Puzzello spent four years at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and two years at the University of Kentucky.

ANGIE RAYMOND, BUSINESS LAW AND ETHICS, KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Angie Raymond joins Indiana University from the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) at Queen Mary, University of London, where she was the director of taught programmes and the LLM director. She currently holds a visiting lecturer status with the Centre as well as one with the University of Navarra. She received a B.A. from St. Ambrose University, Iowa; an M.S. Ed. from Western Illinois University; a J.D. from Loyola University, New Orleans School of Law; and an L.L.M. from the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, University of London. She is currently co-editor of a forthcoming book on international commercial law. She has published articles and book chapters on international commercial arbitration, international commercial comparative law, international secured transactions, cloud computing, open source licensing, and electronic commerce. Her current research interests include international commercial law, international and domestic contracts, international commercial finance, electronic commerce and international commercial arbitration.

SONJA REGO, ACCOUNTING, KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Sonja Rego earned her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1999. For the past 12 years, she served as an assistant professor (1999-2007) and then as an associate professor (2007-2011) of Accounting at the University of Iowa. Prior to earning her Ph.D., Rego was a staff tax accountant at Arthur Andersen (1993-1995) and for the New York State Department of Tax and Finance (1991-1993). Her research and teaching focus on income taxes and how they affect business decisions. She will be teaching income taxation to undergraduate accounting majors at IU.

MARCY SHEPARDSON, ACCOUNTING, KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Marcy Shepardson joins the Kelley School of Business from the University of Texas at Austin where she completed her Ph.D. in Accounting in the fall of 2011. She is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, and attended Michigan State University where she obtained her undergraduate degree in Accounting. Shepardson worked in San Diego, California, as an auditor for both Arthur Andersen and Deloitte & Touche. Her primary research interests are in the area of corporate governance, specifically auditor and audit committee effects on financial reporting and disclosure. She will be teaching auditing to undergraduate accounting majors and Accounting MBA students.

SARA STEFANI, SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES, COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES

Sara Stefani received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2008. She has taught as a visiting assistant professor at Grinnell College and Oberlin College, and for the past two years has been a visiting assistant professor here at Indiana University. Her primary research interests include cultural connections between Russia and England, especially as related to assertions of identity; the Russian avant-garde; Russian visual arts; Russian postmodernism; and the role of sexuality and gender in literature, culture, and the visual arts. Her article “The Unified State and the Unified Mind: Social and Moral Utopia in Zamyatin’s We and Plato’s Republic” is forthcoming in a special issue of Canadian-American Slavic Studies. She is also working on two book projects: the first, based on the dissertation, is a study of Russian and English cultural relations; the second is a study of Russian masculinity. Here at IU, she has taught (or will soon teach) all periods of Russian literature and culture, from the medieval to the contemporary. This fall, she will host an online book discussion group on Tolstoy’s War and Peace as a Themester co-curricular event, and she looks forward to participating in many other IU initiatives.

RACHAEL STOELTJE, UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Rachael Stoeltje’s appointment was switched to tenure-track, which confirms her outstanding performance in her visiting position. Her past experience includes executive director of the Cutters Soccer Club and film archivist for four IU film collections (the Kinsey Institute, the Instructional Support Services collection, and the David Bradley and Peter Bogdanovich film collections at the Lilly Library). Stoeltje received a B.F.A. in Photography from IU in 1991 and completed the George Eastman House Photographic and Film Preservation and Archival Training Program in 1994–1995.

JACINDA TOWNSEND, ENGLISH, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Jacinda Townsend is a novelist with a special interest in literature of the African diaspora. She is the author of the novel Saint Monkey, which will be published in early 2012. A former Fulbright fellow to Côte d’Ivoire and Carol Houck Smith fiction fellow at the University of Wisconsin, she has published short fiction in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. She is a graduate of Harvard University, Duke Law School, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is at work on a novel about transnational adoption set partially in Marrakech, Morocco.

What people, places and/or units at Indiana University have INSPIRED you to dream more, learn more, do more, or become more? "Throughout my IU career, I encountered two of the most empowering women

I have ever met in higher education. Amanda Bonilla (now at Clemson University) and I connected on a very personal level when she was a graduate assistant, and I was a residential assistant for RPS. She always pushed me to think for myself, empowered me when I had good ideas, and let me know my mistakes. Carolyn Waldron, a professor in SPEA, only expected the best and demanded nothing less. In a world where problem solving is becoming an increasingly necessary skill, these two women taught me about myself, my abilities, and how to think creatively in order to succeed as a person and in my future career. My name is Sandra Salcedo, and I'm a senior majoring in public and nonprofit management with a minor in Spanish. This May, I will be the first person in my family to graduate from college with a four-year degree."

"I have been blessed to have received mentorship and inspiration from many

sources at this amazing university. Programs like Hudson and Holland have provided opportunities for me to be challenged beyond my perceived potential. An example of this is its life-altering Ghana study abroad program. Chris and Katrina Reynolds have inspired me to go beyond my own limitations, in faith and personally. My professors have nurtured my talents and facilitated my exponential growth in a short period of time. Lastly, the university has provided innumerable opportunities like inspiring guest speakers and provided an atmosphere where creativity can flourish. Because of this, I was able to create my own major and establish a student organization, both of which have been invaluable to my undergraduate experience. My name is Titilayo Rasaki, and I'm a Social Justice and Advocacy major, with a minor in Arabic. I am from Indianapolis, Indiana by way of Ibadan, Nigeria."

"In my 25 years at IU, I have been inspired, by so many people, to keep a proper focus as well as to reach for the stars.

These women top my list: Kirstine Lindemann, senior academic assistant dean, Undergraduate Affairs, College of Arts and Sciencesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;she believed in me from the moment I began working as transfer recorder for the College, and she has been a role model for me as I have grown into more responsible positions. Doris Howard, Linda Shepard, Julie Aders, Carole Allen, Berky Alvarez-Valentinâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;spiritual sisters of mine who always remind me to look up. My name is Krystie L. Herndon, and I'm an academic advisor in the College for Criminal Justice, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Linguistics, and Art History. I love my job."

"Although I am not yet a student at Indiana University, I have lived in residential

housing on the campus for my whole life, which has given me the unique perspective of IU as my literal backyard. Every day, however, I find myself amazed and inspired by the incredible energy and pursuit of knowledge that permeates the culture of the university. Most of all, I am encouraged by the innumerable staff members in offices across campus who work day in and day out to facilitate success for present and future students on campus. As I dream and plan for my future goals, I cannot see my four college years spent at any place but IU, in an academic atmosphere that demonstrates genuine interest in the well-being and growth of its scholars. My name is Grace Herndon, and I'm a junior at Bloomington High School North. I have lived in Bloomington my whole life. I love to sing, laugh, and serve other people, and I have big plans for the future, part of which I hope to spend at IU."

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Owa Salutes Interim Provost Lauren Robel In January 2012, Lauren Robel, who previously served as dean of the Maurer School of Law, began serving as Interim Provost and Executive Vice President of Indiana University Bloomington. She assumed the position after Provost Karen Hansom resigned to become provost at the University of Minnesota. Robel is currently president of the American Association of Law Schools, where she has served as a member of its Executive Committee since 2006. She is also a member of the Rules Advisory Committee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Robel's research focuses on the federal courts. Her articles have appeared in numerous leading law journals. She is a frequent speaker on topics ranging from procedural reform to sovereign immunity and co-author of Federal Courts: Cases and Materials on Judicial Federalism and the Lawyering Process (LEXISNEXIS 2005), a casebook on federal jurisdiction written with Arthur Hellman.

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$26,600 Cost of a new home

$76,400 Cost of a new home $17,710 Median household income $1.25 Regular gallon of gas (avg.) $2.16 Gallon of milk (avg.)

$8,734 Median household income $.36 Regular gallon of gas (avg.) $1.15 Gallon of milk (avg.)

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$149,800 Cost of a new home $29,943 Median household income $1.16 Regular gallon of gas (avg.) $2.78 Gallon of milk (avg.) $207,000 Cost of a new home $41,994 Median household income $1.51 Regular gallon of gas (avg.) $2.75 to $3.00 Gallon of milk (avg.) $241,200 Cost of a new home $49,445 Median household income $3.00 Regular gallon of gas (avg.) $2.19 Gallon of milk (avg.)